Android Job Trends in the South East

Google Open Handset Alliance Android
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Android skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 187 188
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -29
Permanent jobs citing Android 94 111 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.91% 1.24% 1.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.46% 7.56% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 76 60 75
10th Percentile £27,875 £31,250 £28,116
25th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +20.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £64,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,300 £72,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%

All Operating Systems
South East

Android falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 899 1,469 1,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.68% 16.40% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 739 884 1,374
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,738 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £57,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £71,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Android
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Android relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Android job vacancy trend in the South East

Android
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Android

Android
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Android in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Android in the South East

Android
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Android within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +14 34 £63,750 +27.50% 4
Thames Valley +7 30 £36,000 -4.00% 32
Oxfordshire - 20 £60,980 - 3
East Sussex +24 19 £60,000 - 6
Surrey +1 5 £95,000 +111.11% 11
Buckinghamshire -8 5 £33,500 -10.67% 3
Berkshire -19 5 £29,500 -34.44% 26
Sussex +2 2 £75,000 +130.77%
West Sussex -3 2 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Kent -16 2 £41,500 +7.10% 6
Android
England

Android
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) CMS
1 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (14.89%) Azure
3 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.32%) GitHub
4 5 (5.32%) Google Workspace
4 5 (5.32%) Mimecast
5 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.26%) Google Play
5 4 (4.26%) SaaS
6 2 (2.13%) AWS
6 2 (2.13%) TestFlight
7 1 (1.06%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.06%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) DNS
2 12 (12.77%) DHCP
3 8 (8.51%) Wireless
4 7 (7.45%) Firewall
4 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.38%) LAN
5 6 (6.38%) VPN
6 5 (5.32%) WAN
7 2 (2.13%) Bluetooth
7 2 (2.13%) Ethernet
7 2 (2.13%) HTTP
7 2 (2.13%) SSL
7 2 (2.13%) VLAN
8 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) GIS
1 2 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Storybook
3 3 (3.19%) Android Studio
3 3 (3.19%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.19%) Xcode
4 2 (2.13%) Charles Proxy
4 2 (2.13%) CMake
4 2 (2.13%) Fiddler
4 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) Postman
4 2 (2.13%) TestRail
5 1 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.06%) LabVIEW
General
1 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Manufacturing
3 6 (6.38%) Electronics
3 6 (6.38%) Finance
3 6 (6.38%) Marketing
4 4 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Aviation
5 2 (2.13%) Health Technology
5 2 (2.13%) Legal
5 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Publishing
5 2 (2.13%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.06%) Advertising
6 1 (1.06%) Billing
6 1 (1.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Developer
2 21 (22.34%) Analyst
3 19 (20.21%) Senior
4 16 (17.02%) IT Analyst
5 15 (15.96%) Service Analyst
5 15 (15.96%) Service Desk Analyst
6 14 (14.89%) Android Developer
6 14 (14.89%) iOS Developer
7 13 (13.83%) Senior Developer
8 12 (12.77%) Senior Android Developer
9 8 (8.51%) Embedded Developer
9 8 (8.51%) IT Support
10 7 (7.45%) Mobile Developer
10 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (6.38%) Support Analyst
11 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Technical Support
12 5 (5.32%) 3rd Line Support
12 5 (5.32%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.83%) RESTful
1 13 (13.83%) SwiftUI
2 10 (10.64%) .NET
3 6 (6.38%) React
3 6 (6.38%) React Native
4 5 (5.32%) Jest
4 5 (5.32%) Next.js
5 3 (3.19%) OpenGL
5 3 (3.19%) Vulkan
6 2 (2.13%) Google Maps API
6 2 (2.13%) OpenSceneGraph
6 2 (2.13%) QML
6 2 (2.13%) Qt
6 2 (2.13%) Qt Quick
6 2 (2.13%) Spring
6 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.13%) Web Services
7 1 (1.06%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.06%) Ionic Framework
7 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.98%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.38%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.13%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (2.13%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.13%) IoT
3 2 (2.13%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (2.13%) Robotics
4 1 (1.06%) Blog
4 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.06%) EPoS
4 1 (1.06%) iPhone
4 1 (1.06%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (68.09%) Apple iOS
2 44 (46.81%) Windows
3 17 (18.09%) Mac OS
4 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
5 8 (8.51%) Linux
6 1 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) Android Development
2 24 (25.53%) Mobile Development
3 23 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (21.28%) Customer Service
5 18 (19.15%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.09%) iOS Development
7 15 (15.96%) Customer Experience
7 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.83%) Memory Management
8 13 (13.83%) Multithreading
8 13 (13.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 13 (13.83%) SOLID
9 10 (10.64%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.57%) Clean Code
11 8 (8.51%) Agile
11 8 (8.51%) DevOps
11 8 (8.51%) Mobile Device Management
12 7 (7.45%) Computer Science
12 7 (7.45%) ITIL
13 5 (5.32%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.02%) Kotlin
2 14 (14.89%) Swift
3 7 (7.45%) Java
4 5 (5.32%) C
4 5 (5.32%) C++
4 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) C#
5 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.19%) SQL
6 2 (2.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.13%) Objective-C
6 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) Perl
7 1 (1.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Degree
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.45%) MCP
4 2 (2.13%) MCSE
5 1 (1.06%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.26%) SLA
2 3 (3.19%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Firmware
3 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.26%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.13%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) Apple
3 12 (12.77%) VMware
4 9 (9.57%) Google
5 5 (5.32%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (5.32%) CheckPoint
5 5 (5.32%) Dell
5 5 (5.32%) HP
5 5 (5.32%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.32%) Sophos
5 5 (5.32%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (4.26%) Samsung
7 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.19%) Xamarin
8 2 (2.13%) ESRI
8 2 (2.13%) Mapbox
8 2 (2.13%) Roku
9 1 (1.06%) Citrix
9 1 (1.06%) Mitel
9 1 (1.06%) Splunk